Changing background and font on forums.thesims.com

Tired of the default background on forums.thesims.com? We’ve made a few styles which you can use to easily edit the background. If you’d prefer Roaring Heights, Oasis Landing, Dragon Valley or something else, now you can easily switch backgrounds!

Installing a style

Download one of our styles on userstyles.org. All you have to do is press the green “Install with Stylish” button and you’re done! If you by any chance want to disable the style, you can do that very easily through the add-on tab.

Using an image located on your pc

For most of our styles we load the background image from the EA Games servers. The backgrounds for Sunset Valley, Sunlit Tides and Monte Vista are not accessible anymore, therefore we’re not able to offer you these styles easily. You can however load these backgrounds (and even backgrounds you made yourself!) from your own computer. Below we’ll explain you how to do this with Firefox and/or Chrome.

Additional info on extracting files::
To extract files you need a program which is capable of extracting .zip files. We’d recommend downloading 7-Zip. This is a free program that’s compatible with several filetypes like .rar and .zip.

Right click on Sims3backgrounds-ZIP and choose “Extract here” under 7-Zip. The content will then be extracted in that folder.

3. Download our Chrome-Sims3backgrounds ZIP-file. In this you can find the file that is needed to use local images (manifest.json) and the official backgrounds for Sunset Valley, Sunlit Tides and Monte Vista. Extract the ZIP-file somewhere in a new map.

Additional info on extracting files::
To extract files you need a program which is capable of extracting .zip files. We’d recommend downloading 7-Zip. This is a free program that’s compatible with several filetypes like .rar and .zip.

Right click on Sims3backgrounds-ZIP and choose “Extract here” under 7-Zip. The content will then be extracted in that folder.

4. Open the extensions (browse to chrome://extensions/ or Menu > Tools > Extensions).